From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] Gigabit Ethernet support for forcedeth Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 20:27:55 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040704182755.GA7540@elf.ucw.cz> References: <40E25328.8020102@colorfullife.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Manfred Spraul Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40E25328.8020102@colorfullife.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi! > Attached is an update for the patch that adds support for the gigabit > ethernet nic in the nForce 250 Gb chipset. > > There were two changes from the previous patch: > - clear the PHY_HALF flag if the nic is in half duplex. > - remove the setflags / setlen helper functions: the ring entries are > visible to the hardware, I don't like the read/modify/write cycles. > > It passes my own tests with 100 MBit half duplex, 100 MB full duplex and > 1 GBit full duplex. ... > --- 2.6/drivers/net/forcedeth.c 2004-06-30 07:27:50.330753976 +0200 > +++ build-2.6/drivers/net/forcedeth.c 2004-06-30 07:27:25.579516736 +0200 > @@ -10,8 +10,11 @@ > * trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other > * countries. > * > - * Copyright (C) 2003 Manfred Spraul > + * Copyright (C) 2003,4 Manfred Spraul > * Copyright (C) 2004 Andrew de Quincey (wol support) > + * Copyright (C) 2004 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger (invalid MAC handling, insane > + * IRQ rate fixes, bigendian fixes, cleanups, verification) > + * Copyright (c) 2004 NVIDIA Corporation NVidia has copyright on driver created by reverse engeneering their hardware? Funny ;-). If NVIDIA really cooperates, perhaps its time to make the name more friendly to them? Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!